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Georges Clemenceau, popularly known as The Tiger or ‎Le Tigre, was a leader of the French Third Republic, a ‎key player in the Allied triumph in World War I, and a ‎key architect of the postwar Treaty of Versailles.‎

Is the withdrawal of the Allied troops from Afghanistan, and its fall into the hands of Taliban, a harbinger of an American eclipse?

In order to halt the meteoric rise of China, new voices call for a reconciliation with Putin's Russia, in order to do away with the menacing Russian-Chinese alliance.

An American Professor makes a huge database of the past 10,000 years of humanity on Earth. Employing advanced statistical tools, he predicts future--with mathematical precision. ------------------ The Atlantic Story https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/can-history-predict-future/616993/

In this episode, we look into the tragic story of that promising part of the Arab world; a unique experiment of power sharing in which three sects share the country's political institutions, jobs, and economy; a country that was for a long period of time the Arab world's only democracy, and safe haven for political and social dissidence.

An brief biography of Lord Salisbury's.  ------------------   Follow "Intellectual" on Facebook for historical and cultural content, shared and posted all around ‎the week.‎ 

Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British ‎Empire for most of the 19th century, from 1838 to 1901. The ‎Victorian era is known in history as the golden age of the ‎British Empire, and the era of peace and prosperity across ‎Europe.‎   Victoria was the first British monarch to commemorate the 50th ‎and 60th anniversaries of her ascension to the throne by public ‎celebrations.‎ The 1897 Diamond Jubilee celebrated Victoria as the mother of ‎the British Empire.‎